How listeners misinterpreted the Concept YOLO
YOLO is an acronym that stands for: "you only live once." The phrase is used a motto to convey that one should take risks and live life to the fullest because you probably won't get another chance to do it.
Although the complete, shortened phrase has been used casually for years, the shortened acronym was picked up soon after Canadian music artist Drake featured it in his hip hop single entitled "The Motto." On October 23rd of 2011 and according to Know Your Meme, Drake sent out a tweet with the acronym YOLO in it. The following day the acronym had caught on quite drastically across the web. The day after Drake's YOLO tweet, Twitter analytic site Trendistic reported increased activity of tweets that had included YOLO as a keyword.Twitter users now commonly use hash tag #YOLO to tweet about their once-in-a-lifetime choices and experiences. Some people are serious about it and others use it as a joke. It would really be nice to take life as it came at you by taking the right decisions but instead people tend to make those wrongful decisions because they only live once. It is quite sad to witness people being manipulated to act irresponsibly because of a phrase. What’s more troubling as that it was reported that Drake stated that his audience took the concept in a wrong way because he never thought people will do wrongful behavior just to justify themselves with the phrase.
Such behavior is the results that parents come to the conclusion that music influence the listeners in a bad way. YOLO should not act as a catalyst to poor decision making. The concept of Yolo isn’t to go smoke and drink, and make yourself a bad person by being mischievous. It is to go out and do something with your life that matters; after all you only live once.
You only live thats the Motto, everday!True, but the artist (Drake) is'nt responsible as to how people percieve has music. The essence of Hip-Hop has been misunderstood by flashy cars, money and drinking expensive bottles of intoxicating beverages. The music is to inspire, educate and mos of all entertain. As a fan of the music, one has to make informed and rational decisions on what will make an impact on your life...@MokD21
ReplyDeleteI support you fully on that Mpho hence I always emphasize the point that as listeners we are a group but one should'nt forget that you make your decisions alone. Thanx to Drake the concept is wide spread but its not his fault that his listeners are acting dumb because of it.
ReplyDeletePeople have a tendency of following trends they themselves don't understand. I think of YOLO as OLOY which means Only Losers Obey Yolo because they just follow it because it is trendy and is depicted as socially accepted behaviour. People should learn to live their own lives and set their own trends.
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ReplyDeleteI hope you learned something from this blog.
Delete@ Sizzle da concept OLOY is so unique and I think its a nice twist to it. No one wants to be a LOSER and I hope this will help them realise that they shouldn't engage themselves in bad behaviour because they will end up being losers.
ReplyDeleteTrue to that,you only live once but the motto that Drake perceive to us lead us(people) to do things without using common sense.Hip Hop is meant to educate, inspire, and mostly entertain the audience. We should never depict the trend as a socially accepted behaviour because as some point there will be a time were some things that you had done will turn against you.
ReplyDeleteThat is true and it is a pity that the media do not conduct research showingthe downfall of people due to following the YOLO trend. In that way at least the audience would know both the advantages and disadvantages of the trend.
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